اَلْحَمْدُلِلّٰہ This department has set up approximately 27,000 collection boxes across 150 cities in Pakistan. Up to now, more than 200,000 sacks of religious literature have been dealt with.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Maintaining family ties

Dear Islamic brothers! Bringing this speech to an end, let us now look at some points about maintaining family ties. First, let us listen to two hadith in this regard.

1.   Every act of good treatment is charity, whether it be shown to the rich or poor.^[1]

2.   Glad tidings to whoever treated his parents well, as Allah has lengthened his life.^[2]

*    Maintaining family ties is necessary (wājib), whilst severing these ties is haram and leads to the Hellfire.^[3]

*    Behaving well with one’s family does not mean they are only shown good character if they show it first, they are given things only because they gave first, or they are visited because they visited you first. Rather, this would be reciprocation. Maintaining family ties means making ties with whoever breaks them. They seek to leave you, whilst you uphold familial rights instead.^[4]